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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Frazer Responds to Barton

Barton says it’s not clear that I “bothered to read” Jefferson’s Lies and that my critique was of a 20-year-old video.

He
does NOT point out that: a) he is still making the same claims as those
I critiqued in the “old” video; b) when defending his claims on the
radio, he restated the claim – he misstated his own claim while World and even the New York Times got it correct in their articles; and, perhaps most importantly, c) he misses the point that I did not criticize Jefferson’s Lies
BECAUSE I had not read it – but he criticized my book on the radio
WITHOUT HAVING READ IT! The fact that I didn’t criticize what I hadn’t
read should be an example to him, but somehow it’s a negative. He feels
free to criticize my work without reading it – just lumping it in with
others with whom I disagree.